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to be sort of clear to you that stranded in greece are vowing to stay over gaza on monday with that aid define not only be traded located but also a battle that the leading greek words with an american continent already under arrest. activists on board accuse the united states and israel of putting pressure on the greek government i'll bring you more in a few moments. germany's accused of shooting criminal class cold followed by refusing for decades to extradite the non said man was taken from a life sentence in the netherlands for mass murder. allen moscow is certain that international film festival reaches its global finale as a wrap of the main award for its film the ways join it's meeting the top stars of extravaganza.

international news live from moscow this is the with me us above all over thanks for joining it's ptomaine story now appropriate seen in a flotilla with humanitarian aid plans to continue its journey to gaza from greece on monday despite a bond by the government in athens on boats leaving greek pools for the palestinian territory the american captain of a vessel has been arrested for trying to defy the order which compared to say came after pressure from the u.s. and israel are his policy has more from tenet. there has been no explanation given by athens as to why this preventing these ships from sailing former sports distant to gaza justice today friday one of the ships called the giuliana set sail it was in the waters for some fifteen to twenty minutes before the greek closed guard stopped it and diverted it to a military dockyard now athens is not quiet about this and has come on record as

saying that no ships distant from gaza will be that sports and ought to correspondent on board one of the ships that has been seized explained that greece is acting in violation of international law. cannot or will not give up there are twelve members of european and other national parliaments among the free gaza activists and they're trying to pull strings to force their governments to try and influence greece's decision to block their ships in their harbors are lawyers for the freedom flotilla are saying the greek government actions are unlawful because the ships cannot be prohibited from going to gaza and they should not be restrained from three relieving the harbors i have seen every part of the ship i'm on and there are no weapons or anything that could be used as weapons the people who participated in the free gaza flotilla are harmless most are elderly many over sixty and even seventy well let's go to that has been dubbed the freedom to tell it and it's been in the planning for at least two years since that first fatality and last year that came at the end of may and it ended in disaster with nine turkish

citizens being killed on board one of the ships not activists or patients to prevent this from happening again they've made a point of saying that their whole attempt to bring humanitarian supplies to gaza is a non violent mission at the same time the israeli authorities have been a pains to also try and prevent this from happening at the same on the world has been accusing the united states and israel of putting pressure on athens particularly when it's seeking economic balance we spoke to one such activist adam shapiro is you know is really you know already. we you we know we. prime minister netanyahu comments yesterday he made where he thanked. prime minister papandreou for basically doing israel's work for it and what we know behind the scenes that israel has been putting as well as the united states has been putting it under pressure on the greek government the greek government is in a very weak position because of its economic problems a popular government and. it concerned me for previous such pressure and we

believe although we don't have evidence of it we do believe that both the united states and israel were putting economic pressure on greece as well the activists themselves are in a number of different positions some of them are out at sea some of them have already been away state and are being detained we are hearing that they do plan and number of the large demonstrations in athens to call on the greek government to explain to give and the just an explanation as to why this preventing these ships from saving we've also been hearing reports of sabotage and were ports at an irish missile that at this moment is intent to seize was sabotaged by israeli divers who worked on the ground to prevent their engines from working obvious way the foreign ministry today saturday denied those charges it called them ridiculous and paranoid but certainly the activists are facing an uphill battle in trying to get this fertility going. and if you want to know more about the freedom flotilla there's

more exclusive coverage for you online on our website r.t. dot com and find a regular blog updates from our own correspondent aboard one of the boats taking part as well as other reports on the five year blockade of the flotilla is trying to break all that and a lot smaller now website r.t. dot com. and later in the program aussies resident takes to the streets of new york task whether people think social networking is a gift or a cat. people to put everything on here young girls young kids you know home addresses and everything like that people see what you show them not what you actually are in my experience and if you put something on the internet people will watch and think that that's actually your life you know when when people could be sitting at home doing nothing for a whole weekend they might just make things up just to make themselves more interesting.

for almost sixty years germany has been refusing to extradite a dutch war criminal sentenced in holland to life imprisonment class carol farber convicted of mass murder of concentration camp prisoners escaped prison in the nineteen fifties and fled to germany where he have tamed citizenship despite being a wartime not a collaborator daniel bushell went in search of the man who's a living reminder of the fascist past those from the close carol for volunteered for the nazis in world war two he tortured victims before killing build a concentration camp in the neverland where frank was held to have been systematically beefed up people in the night they have to dig their own graves and he was part of the firing squad which charged them. a dutch court jailed for of the war for twenty two murders he's suspected of many more but in one nine hundred fifty two he escaped to germany which lets him go and gave him full german

citizenship he was basically sure did are protected from extradition in the netherlands has applied time after time to have returned to serve his sentence but germany doesn't extradite its citizens no matter how horrific the crime this is the man who ruled for book can stay free yet he hates the german law which he has to enforce i'm across. and prosecutors like criminals. see no difference. and one of the killers. another person in germany in neverland this is a criminal is on of course confirm really was murdered in the second world war by the dutch sis he confronted farber and asked him if he had any remorse for bill

responded with sneers and mockery that was four years ago neighbors say farber's know how spell and and close to death it's a race against time for justice now you say well he's eighty nine and people say sometimes say well why put him in jail now but one you know his victims never lifted a second of this you know had never felt sorry for his his deeds so if you go to munich you know and tried to talk your way just ignorant you know just don't want to talk at all if we don't put him in jail before he dies you know it will always hang as a dark cloud a ball you know why didn't you put your fairy last real cruel not since where he belongs germany convicted ukrainian american john demjanjuk. of nazi war crimes or much weaker evidence germany has one rule for its people says cost billions and another for foreigners about the younger but this from russia you know they don't

mind kicking him around as well this isn't germans or even father of a german national therefore. this is where the man dubbed the nazi executioner lives german media is banned from revealing his address but we know he's in a mosque if he has a message for the families of his victims. do you have a message for. the dutch making a final push to put him behind bars they applied to have him serve the sentence in germany activists say it's the last chance to jail the butcher of westerbork the new bushel r.-t. english start that. this is darcy and on the way some ladies you wouldn't want to mess with. go as it turns out arm wrestling is not just for the guys here in russia's north caucasus lore and more women are getting in to be active and

we managed to wrestle the secrets of some of the sports super women. a police officer has been killed and two others wounded in a gunfight with militants in russia's republic of chechnya the exchange of fire happened when the group broke away after being tracked by security forces official say at least twelve armed militants xscape and docile to have fled into nearby mountainous forest areas been sealed off with additional troops seeking to close in on the assailants the number of terror attacks in russia's caucasus region has gone up by a third in the last few months meanwhile special operations by government forces have killed over two hundred militants this year. and right now let's check some other world news in brief the syrian president has signed any official rate attempts to abuse and he regime demonstrators tried to twenty four people are thought to have been killed by security forces one turns of the dozens took part in demonstrations on friday believed to be the largest such crowd cross across the

protests rather so far president assad has fired the governor of the central city of hama a scene of the most to be a violent crackdown civil rights groups say almost fifteen hundred people have been killed by the army in protest since the mid march. and there have been protests in kabul against a recent string of rocket attacks that have killed at least thirty six civilians on the border with pakistan to us traitors accuse the pakistani army and intelligence services of responsibility practiced on half the night of the accusations but admitted that some rockets may have accidentally fall in an afghan territory when security forces target militants carrying out cross border attacks. eurozone finance ministers have decided to release twelve billion euro to greece's. part of a bailout package agreed last year to eighteen the threat of an imminent sovereign default by athens they also pledged to complete work on a second rescue package for the ration in the coming weeks athens has approved

a second round of austerity measures aimed at curbing its mounting debt she cited is widespread public opposition over the fairness of the blinds without the money greece would have defaulted within days and the international monetary fund is now expected to rubber stamp its a three point three billion euro part of the bailout related this week. under the lighter note no expense was spared at the wedding of prince albert of monaco monaco and former south african olympic swimmer charlene wittstock which has finished after two days of lot of celebrations three and a half thousand guests including the world leaders and celebrities at the end of bigley training occasionally the couple exchanged vows in a mass celebrated by monaco is catholic archbishop charlene becomes the father princess of monaco the groom is another form of throne star grace kelly who died in a car crash on the set of jessica. leon panetta has been sworn in as the new u.s. defense secretary replacing robert gates during his time as pentagon achieve gates

developed a good reputation among his colleagues but struggled to bring about victory in iraq in afghanistan however out his military contributors says he actually helped natura the taliban in the first place for our generation of the cold warriors on the bowl side soon the united states and russian federation it is robert gates there are with galling circle drilled defense who personalize it's called war and it spewed robert gates was anything but controversial and he has garnered full respect all across the board. during his valedictory exit tour from of ghana stand all across europe and back to the united states robert gates displayed unbelievable specter of sincerity and candor providing he's honest and unvarnished assessment of the united states strategic of all the reach all across the globe and somehow i have

a hunch in his upcoming memoirs robert gates really explain his one unfinished dream that is to finish the job he initiated in his previous capacity as the cia chief when he opened up at the pound or a box of extremism in pakistan and in afghanistan only to be called back to duty almost thirty years later to eradicate the evidence which is so carefully rared and groomed in his previous capacity as the cia chief social media has brought about a communications revolution and has also helped spark revolutions as well as a tool to avoid government censorship and organize protests in the arab world that's yet but is everyone a farm oh he's the new president reporter a new york hit they thought it was to ask people that think.

in today's social media driven world you can post whatever hate speech doctored photos or other nonsense you want with virtually no consequences how do you feel about that defining our times this week let's talk about that i was as still king a guy on facebook once and by mistake instead of rising his name and the such i put as my status that was all good i knew got me these things very quickly i think everybody to really say did you learn your lesson yet people just put anything on their young girls young kids you know home addresses and everything like that i got a nice. open approaches a house no address people see what you show them not what you actually are in my experience and if you put something on the internet people will watch and think that's that set your life you know when when people could be sitting at home doing nothing for a whole weekend they might just make things up just to make themselves more interesting a lot of people tend toward being snotty or rude and they've been taught through

television and other media that that's that's the new cool yet there's a shift in our culture going on but that'll change as people start to understand that they end result of that is isolate you isolate yourself when you do that kind of stuff we need to be center of attention. as the world just become a giant high school yeah i would say yes we're all it's just a big giant but we always call we all hated it so why do we want to live it every day that's a good question that's a good question and it's almost even in the more middle school that sort of mean girl kind of being and i think even adults get into the bullying which is kind of sad but do you think that as we grow as a society people will get smarter about what's a post or will it just get worse and worse i think people always be people you're going to have people that are smart you can have people that are not and i think it will be fruitcakes that put things on the that is just unhelpful and home.

regardless of how you feel about the pitfalls of social media the bottom line is it's probably going to get a lot worse before it gets better if it ever does. wrestling is a sport generally associated with beefy man but in russia school says the women up flexing their muscles to dina has been getting to grips with some of them determined to become international stars. there is little clue as to why this quiet corner of russia and the north caucasus hide such a powerful secret because his hand that we find perhaps some of the strongest women in the country but they're hoping their arm wrestling talents will one day be shared with the world in the olympic arena. began wrestling in nine hundred ninety four but now she's clearly a super woman with town world and fourteen year old gold medals born in

a small village in the mountains she says that she has achieved everything she wished for and now it's time for a younger generation to follow in her winning footsteps i've been as biggest concern though is that this poor doesn't get the recognition she feels it deserves sometimes we simply don't have money to go to the championships after training so hard young girls are losing the stimulus to continue when they hear that there is no chance for them to go unless they collect the money themselves one thing that might change that would be if the sport was made part of their limpy games bringing more attention and financing competitive organized matches began in california in nineteen fifty two and soon gained real popularity arm wrestling as one of the most peaceful comet of sport that actually doesn't require any special equipment and people of all ages have a real chance of winning if i did something quite so. bad

as the truth of winning right now i'm going to check it out myself. so it's thirty. standing hours of the gym i'll be in as trainee louise she doesn't know if she'll ever have enough money to go to the championships but she never loses hope. maybe it is an incorrect comparison but sport is like a swan for me once you get into there's simply no turning back. i tried to start but i can't live without it and they will continue hoping that one day we will be recognized by the public. it seems like occasion women are following hard on the successful heels of their man who take many of the world's models in almost all types of wrestling and with girls' hair seemingly determined to break the stereotypes we could soon see more in more high heels making their way into the wrestling arenas. the republic of north the sasha.

later in the program another sort of woman russian tennis or reassure a very defined by a comparable scream it still remains the symbol of success that generation of young players despite one build of the final to. refer to that international film festival in moscow has come to a dynamic climax with the way you know the best films being announced and our correspondent peter oliver was that a family for. this year's winner of the coveted golden george award is the movie the waves directed by alberto maya's it's a spanish movie the second year in a row that a spanish language movie has won the top prize here at the moscow international film festival last year it was the turn of a man also brothers this year though it's gone to the waves a movie set in the against the backdrop of the spanish civil war it's not the only

prize that movies picks up carlos out of it is also taken the best actor price at this year's festival so two awards going to the spanish movie the waves the top prize for best film and also the best actor prize now there's also been plenty of other awards up for grabs in one person who's picked up one of those awards isn't a stranger to collecting gongs she's already got four buff does three golden globes for emmys amongst others including an academy award for best actress dame helen mirren the british actress has picked up the stanislav ski award for acting excellence i mean mentally on it you know the name shana saskia obviously to our. last act is if an enormous import the united states if possible really to say how important standard task is now not just for here to actually not to see that was where he's in front started but but then went on to film acting a whole host of celebrities plenty of russian celebrities from stage screen and the

world of sports as well as business and politics be represented here but also a whole host of international stars now i met up with the the director of the movie which is closing out the ceremony the espionage drill at the desk in which dame helen mirren actually stars. the director john martin you know you may know him from his movie shakespeare in love as well as captain corelli's mandolin he was. due to soak up the atmosphere for the first time you're saying at the moscow film festival. also absolute a whole host of other people and the mcdowell had a few interesting comments to make about the the green carpets of course the color you color for the car but these type of events usually read the most. first of all going to green she was saying it's caused some problems when it comes to picking up perfect outfits i had a wonderful stylist that lives here in russia helped me pick out the dress and she brought me many dresses to choose from and i particularly liked this one because it

was like a piece of sculpture and it fit me perfect so i was happy to have it and she was lovely lovely lady well it's not just on the mcdonald of course it had problems picking out what she was going to wear i argue nice for hours and hours this morning about what i was going to put on to make sure i looked right for this i'm sure you can sell. russian tennis down the area sharapova may know how won wimbledon this year but she still remains an inspiration for many players world wide she won the tournament when she was just seventeen since when her striking looks as well as her fanatic prowess one her friend bought on and off the court case tom barton has been trying to find a secret i think that. that. have been caught up in the russians call it big tennis to distinguish it from ping pong much to the amusement of foreigners but now russia's racket wielding darling has made it to the biggest tennis tournament of the move since her win at wimbledon in

two thousand and four maria mania has turned into a star off the court as well in peaches and catwalks she's joined the hall of fame with jaw dropping russian tennis woman but she only wants to talk about the tense i told myself to just take it one point at a time and really focus and then i thought like a discount i got in my zone so we went down to one of moscow's toughest young tennis tournaments the club here claims to be the home of tomorrow's stuff players so what do these young russians think of their compatriots example that. i think she's very positive and not everyone could have such patients patience is very important in tennis because if i've always liked her even when i was very young i started playing because i wanted to be like her and now people are telling me i'm playing like her god no i think i find a very strong inspiration from her i really like the way she plays she has very

good technique she always fights until the end and never gives up one thing nobody can ignore about shut up over. that grant or screen or whatever it is we decided to send some of russia's future granting talent can make compete. because one of the stars this club has turned out is catarina pulled up she was ranked eightieth than world under eighteen ranking. but she forged her career in russian children out of has been in america since she was seven doesn't lessen her inspirational appeal so this expression is a russian word helps do you need to. talk to you working harder i might have to put

in a few more hours myself. ok so i probably couldn't even beat these kids for the game of tennis but that's because they're out here every day practicing driven home by heroes like maria sharapova well maybe it's because they haven't mastered the all important grown. up. that was done by squeaking farty in moscow europe today too can check out more news and eye catching leaders on our website r.t. dot com like read about the fifteenth exotic culture in moscow where weird and wacky meets fast and here is the annual motoring abound which has opened its doors to the public. and also on line as bengal tiger abandoned by his mother has become the main attraction at a russian zoo now even with his own twitter page. up

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